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Biographical entry Steane, Dorothy A.

Dr (PhD)

Occupation

Eucalypt geneticist and Plant evolutionary biologist

Summary

Dorothy Steane has worked as a research scientist at the University of Tasmania. Her research has a strong focus on the phylogeny, population genetics and evolution of eucalypts (family Myrtaceae), but she has also pursued molecular phylogenetic studies of other plant families including Lamiaceae, Ericaceae, Rutaceae and Orchidaceae. She has been a pioneer of new molecular markers for studying eucalypt evolution and in 2005 published the complete sequence of the chloroplast genome of the Tasmanian Blue Gum, Eucalyptus globulus, the first such genome published for any eucalypt. Dorothy Steane has published prolifically as author and co-author; only a selection of her articles are listed here.